THE NEW YORKER Mon dteu! .).... YOU ARE BY THE 39 Ces Amértcatns! . j r.. . ... J .:.i! ' 1 :'. ,/ v..: J::t y .- .. . A::I .J'....._". ".. . . -. .,.. ìÁ.. .,:l "..../. .ij ,>,L d) . " . :.' . . ..... Ü ;I,:}... ..".,/3;, ..:;. . , 'e IJ 4 fi f f . ?" " , , $.10. ii: f \,, . .' ..:,,"-.., ..,. .':;'.:- ... ..,.{. .. ::L" , .;:f*. ,. . . "' . t _ !:-:; . ;:, . ...; . #j: '4 . ._i-:"::-:-: <Ii JUDGED, FRENCH .:i' ; ,\.< .: !;: ::;>';";' :;':ih:::è::::.};.:., i': J ';: " ;:'::i :1:-:-' '!t.'!.-..v...: b-:. ;: i ..fPfu - w:z;: ;< . ..:...."'..-it:: ..:-".;... 1 6.: .::i-.: . ' ::: ..:. .:; ::: /'.: :..... *:. ...< , ,>, .':'0.. .:....'0 y . '. YOU SPEAK P EOPLE used to be judged by the com- pany they kept but, since the war, all that is changed. With the downfall of the nobility and the rise of the bootlegger- with the invasion by the moneyed proleta- riat of our very smartest night clubs-there is no way for those about you to know that you are to the manner born, except by the limpid, unconscious perfection of your pro- nunciation of chartreuse, absinthe, etc. For the fashionable wedding trip, too, nothing smooths over travel difficulties so well as a knowledge of how to speak this most charming and universal of languages. Everybody who is anybody is going abroad now, on first, second, third or possibly final honeymoon journeys. "How I wish that I could speak French I" This is the ever-deepening yearning of the fashionable and those who wish to become more fashionable. The question has always been, "How can I learn, in a short time, to speak French fluently, so that underlings will envy and foreigners understand me?" 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